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Amanda Scott

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
401 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

Yes.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

It's amazing.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

And it feels very like our indigenous forebears who used every part of an animal they killed.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

And now we're using every part of an instrument that someone has lovingly made.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

Yeah.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

And you create a space.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

I want to get into dreaming, but let's not go there yet.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

Sorry, I interrupted.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

Let's take a little sidestep because a lot of the book is about animals and how they've been forced to adapt.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

So, for instance, I did not know that we were forcing the evolution of tuskless elephants because the ones that have no tusks survive because the poachers don't want them, which just makes me want to hurl things at the wall.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

However, you headed down a bit of an avenue with human design of cities, of buildings, of the place in Brighton that is 98% made of recycled stuff, and with Janine Benyus and the biomimicry.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

And we talked to Michael Pollan on this podcast a while ago.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

And so...

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

It seems to me, at the moment, as you said, most of our buildings are designed for one purpose.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

We're either designing to look beautiful and to be functional, or we're designing to be cheap and functional.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

And as Lou, who does the video, said, you know, we've got this triangle.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

It can either be, there are three things, cheap, beautiful, and effective.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

And it can be two of the three.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

But we don't think about the end of its life.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

And you write in the book of a play park in the Netherlands, I think, or Belgium, that's made out of